PCM56 "S" stamp ???

[Bernhard]

Hi,

anybody knows what grade is S ?

Only I have ever seen J,K,L ...

CDP is Blaupunkt Artech with XLR symmetrical outputs.

[tube-lover]

Dear Bernhard,

Do U had the photos of the 'S' grade chips??

I had only 'K' grade on hand, I also hadn't seen 'S' before.

thx

thomas

[Bernhard]

Hi Thomas,

I can post picture tomorrow.

"S" could mean everything between sh*t and superior

Where did you get PCM63 K2 ??? Any CDP ???

Just found out that this CDP is same as Sansui X701/i.

[tube-lover]

dear Bernhard,

all chips I got from Taiwan. My friend was one of the computor chips dealer for monther board & CD , DVD machine OEM factory in China & Taiwan. All the chips were sample for show off. He send to me because he want to tell me that PCM63P had japan made & taiwan made two version. In his opinions, jaoan made will be better. This will be same as TDA1541, holland madeversion, OEM versions & at last Taiwan version. Most people said taiwan TDA1541a R1 or the best S2 had smooth sound than early holland made but lack of bass than early chips.

As the photos shows. He had PCM56K on hand. Later I will try to build the PCM 56K non-oversampling to test the performance.

Now I got one small factory in taiwan & it will to fit all the parts on the PCB. So the DIyer will early to test the DAC. But another tube buffer PCB must funish by Diyers.

Hope they will like them, more precision chips to me to test more....... very good.

thx

thomas

[Bernhard]

Thomas,

is PCM63 K2 better selection as PCM63 K ???

Here is picture of PCM56 S ...

[BrianL]

I believe the "S" on the PCM56 indicates that it is a sample.
I don't believe it has anything to do with gradeout. In that
case, it's just a plain vanilla part, not a high grade.

I do not know about the PCM63P-K-2. "K" is generally the
highest grade, so one could presume that K-2 is slightly
better. ?? Note that on some DACs, the "L" grade is
a lower grade ("L" == "low cost" ??) than the standard
non-suffixed product.

[Bernhard]

Originally posted by BrianL
I believe the "S" on the PCM56 indicates that it is a sample.

Sansui runs their production with samples ?

[Elso Kwak]

Originally posted by Bernhard


Sansui runs their production with samples ?

Could be the S from selected or Sansui........

[Bernhard]

Just sent email to TI.

[Elso Kwak]

Originally posted by Bernhard
Just sent email to TI.

Could be done at Sansui.............